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Case Study: The YWCA Interim House Of Detroit
Domestic violence is an unruly conduct that has plagued our nation for many past centuries. It’s an assaultive and coercive behavioral pattern which involves physical, sexual and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion, which generally male partner’s uses against their intimate partners.
Domestic violence is not an isolated individual event; it’s usually a pattern of multiple tactics and repeated events. Unlike stranger to stranger violence in domestic violence the assaults are repeated against the same victim by the same perpetrator. These assaults occur in different forms, such as: * Physical assault: assault with lethal weapon, hitting, pushing, pulling hair, holding down, Emotional assault: criticizing, blaming, …show more content…
One of the largest facilities here in Michigan which also has a few locations within Detroit is called the YWCA. I visited the YWCA interim House of Detroit to get some incite about when the facility was discovered and developed within Detroit and the comprehensive services they provide, how is the organization funded, and what their morally objective.
The YWCA Interim House of Detroit is located on 6 mile and Wyoming. This facility is a temporary emergency housing for battered women and their children. The YWCA Interim House is a segmented unit of the YWCA. The facility opened its doors in 1979, becoming one of the first and the largest shelters in Michigan. The shelter environment is safe, comfortable, caring and supportive. The average length of stay is 60 days. A) YWCA Interim House comprehensive services:

* 24 hour crisis …show more content…
Statics has revealed that there has been an subsequent number of cases of domestic violence world-wide and many of the abuse victims had no safe place to refugee to run because attackers usually follow their victims to relatives and friends houses. So shelters, also known as safe havens for women was originated, so women and their children would have an adequate place to go for their safety and assistance. Also, currently with the effects of the weaken economy particularly in Detroit statics has showed that about one Detroiter in four who is able to work a job and is unable to find one, domestic violence thrives at this such times. Domestic Violence now has its own full-time criminal docket at 36 District
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